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DBMS > FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbpouchdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSymasApache Software FoundationSimer Plaha
Initial release1983201120122018
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.32, January 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnonono

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